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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve noticed a few things about parents of only children that cannot fathom having any additional kids:
1) They don’t realize that siblings actually enjoy spending time together.
2) Often the fathers are not very engaged. I had a mother of an only ask me how I handle my kids being in different activities at the same time. I thought it was pretty obvious that my husband took one kid. But after I told her, she responded that she handles the activities...okay...
3) They have some time-consuming hobby or job with weird hours and fail to consider that others do not have that taking up their time
4) They are low energy people[/quote]

This is total BS. I have 1 and we are done. I am one of 3 and my husband is one of 4. We had different upbringings, but are normal, grounded people with good and bad sibling relationships. My husband makes a lot of money and we have a high net worth of real estate holdings and investments. We live a very privileged life but don’t want other kids, period. We could higher round the clock care and have had a live in, which we decided took some of our privacy away so changed our arrangement after 8 months. We are high energy people with active lives but no time consuming hobbies such as triathlons or marathons or long distance cycling which would keep one of us away for extended time. My husband gets my daughter up in the morning and takes her to school when he is not traveling. They have a very strong, loving bond. Not everyone wants the chaos of multiple kids. I love kids, I love my friends kids but I love my life and don’t want any more.

The sweeping generalizations and myopic views on this board provide so much comic relief. If I were to guess, most of these rigid viewed people preach tolerance and love in their daily life but are the most intolerant toward others who see the world or have experienced life differently. [/quote]

Although I enjoyed reading about your high net worth *eye roll*, this comment is not in reference to you if you simply chose not to have more kids. This is about people like previous PPs who claim you cannot properly parent more than one child. They go on and on about how they just can’t fathom how parents make it work with more than one. Try to read and be less defensive next time![/quote]

Ha, I am not defensive and laugh at how pathetic your need to troll another person’s response is here. You’re the one that has reading comprehension problem. My response was to the statement “I’ve noticed a few things about parents of only children that cannot fathom having any additional kids”. I can’t fathom it and the 4 point noted are sweeping generalizations that can apply to people who have zero to many kids. [/quote]

If with all those resources you simply can’t fathom how people have more than one kid, then you have some other issue. Plenty of people choose to have one kid but are able to see how others make it work with more than one.[/quote]

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